27 Nisan<\/a> (April or early May depending on the year), chosen in connection with the Warsaw Uprising (but with some additional complexities).<\/p>\nWhat date would you choose?<\/p>\n
And, yes, I would get into bigger questions about the pledge of \u201cNever Again,\u201d but we\u2019re doing a pretty sucky job at keeping that promise, anyway.<\/p>\n
(Image: \u00a0Holocaust memorial in Berlin, from\u00a0By Guido Radig (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n
UPDATE: \u00a0Actually, I had my days mixed up when I typed this up, since, if you\u2019ll notice, it\u2019s only the 26th. \u00a0But I\u2019ll leave this up rather than \u201cre-publishing\u201d tomorrow. \u00a0Oops!<\/p>\n
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Per the UN, and also observed by the EU, and many European countries, it commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Russian army, on January 27, 1945. Is this the right date to have chosen? The U.S. chose April 28 \u2013 29th, the dates on which the U.S. army liberated Dachau. \u00a0(Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":3753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,289],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holocaust","tag-holocaust-remembrance-day"],"yoast_head":"\n
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